Commando mortar
The term Commando mortar refers to a class of lightweight infantry mortars designed for maximum portability and rapid deployment with a caliber of 60mm (2.4 in) or less in diameter, at the expense of accuracy and repeatability. Earliest models had been introduced from the 1930s onwards.
Commando mortars often feature design simplifications such as straps instead of bipods, carrying handles, and limited aiming equipment. Some of these straps are marked with measurements, with the intent that the mortarman step on a marked point of the sling and pull it taut, at which point the mortar will be angled so as to fire to the range marked at that point of the sling.
Users
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Empire of Japan: Type 10 and Type 89 grenade discharger 50mm, second world war.[1]
Soviet Union: "Spade Mortar" 37mm, second world war.[2]
Austria: Hirtenberger M6C-210 Commando Mortar 60mm[3]
Ireland: Denel Land Systems M-1 60mm commando mortar[4]
South Africa: Denel LS "patrol mortar" or M-4 Commando Mortar 60mm[5]
Iran: DIO "Marsh mortar" 37mm[6]
United Kingdom: L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar[7]
France: LGI Mle F1 51mm mortier léger[8]
Portugal: INDEP M/968 60mm
Yugoslavia: M70 Mortar 60mm
Myanmar: BA-100 60 mm Mortar.- Myanmar: MA-9 60 mm Mortar.
Israel: Soltam C03 Mortar 60mm- Iran: DIO HADID 60 mm HM12 and HM13 Commando mortars[9]
Spain: ECIA Mortar 60mm
Peru: DC-M37C1 60mm Patrol Mortar
Turkey: MKEK 60mm Commando Mortar[10]
Netherlands: M6C-640, light mortar 60mm
Thailand: Royal Thai Army Ordnance 60mm Mortar WPC A3 (Commando)
Georgia: STC Delta GNM-60 mkudro 60mm[11]
Czechia: LRM vz. 99 ANTOS 60mm mortar[12]
Iraq: Al-Jaleel 60mm Commando Mortar[13]
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam[14][15]
See also
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[edit]- ^ US Army manual TM-E 30-480 at hyperwar, Type 10 and 89 dischargers Taki, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ battlefield.ru page, rkka.ru page (russian), archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ Hirtenberger AG M6 60 mm Mortars (old product line), archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ Tactical Weapons, May 2010 Issue. Guns of the Elite: Multi-Mission Warriors, page 93.
- ^ "M4 60 mm Commando Mortar System" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2019., archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ 37 mm Marsh mortar Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ 51mm Light Mortar British Army, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ LGI Specifications (french), archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ HADID 60 mortars Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ "60 mm COMMANDO MORTAR, Product Details". Archived from the original on 2011-09-13. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- ^ GNM-60 mortar STC Delta website, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ Article about 60 mm ANTOS mortar (pol.) adopted by Czechia, Jordania, Poland, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (1998). Iraq Country Handbook (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. A-17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2005. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
- ^ Moorcraft, Paul (19 March 2013). Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory of Sri Lanka's Long War. ISBN 9781783830749.
- ^ "Humanitarian Operation - Factual Analysis, July 2006 - May 2009" (PDF). Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka). 1 August 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.